“The next time they do one of these B2 shows, where they screen the film and take questions, why doesn’t somebody just ask for the data right then and there — How many patients over the course of the years, including the fraction who are still alive, the fraction who died, and the fraction whose survival is unknown?

They will get used to hearing that question and do their best to adapt, but just making stuff up will have consequences of its own”

““I have never heard of antineoplastons,” said Yu Xiong, deputy president of the Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry

“Finally, barking up the right squirrel””

Another EPIC Burzynski Critic FAIL

#46 – herr doktor bimler – March 15

“From Mark Thorson’s link:

Li Qingchen, a doctor and member of Scientific Squirrels, a Chinese organization dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge, said Thursday that the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) has been using an unapproved cancer therapy to swindle Chinese patients

[…]

The Chinese representative office of A4M claimed on its website that it could offer a “breakthrough cancer therapy” developed by Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, who asserts that cancer can be treated with ANTINEOPLASTONS, a group of amino acids and petides normally found in urine and blood

The organization also posted dozens of promotional videos and blogs on Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging site

Sounds like the international trade in snake oil has run into CITES regulations

What’s the story with AAAAM?

On first glance it’s a umbrella organisation for a heterogeneous mixture of shysters and charlatans, including Burzynski’s “Aminocare” sideline”

You mean ANTINEOPLASTONS which have the same main ingredient as CDA-2 (CDA-H or CDA-II) ?

“Phase I/II/III clinical trials of CDA-2 have been completed in China in 2003